Rebel Painters/New York School

During the 1940s-1950's America, There were two main Art styles focused on were Existentialism and Abstract Expressionism.  As a group we will be focusing on the Abstract Expressionism style. In each of our individual essays, we will each be looking at an artist from this group, but here we will be researching facts about the artists. The Artists we are looking at are Andrew Bucci, Clyfford Still, Robert Rauschenberg, Romare Beardan, William De Kooning, Franz Kline and Jaspers Johns, known as the 'New York School'.


The 1950s saw the end of World War II and the beginning of new styles of art, new artists and new movements. The 1950s was a fresh, clean start for the people of the US after the war, therefore this meant the art being created would reflect on what was going on socially.  


Carl Morris; Agriculture, from the Art Movement of Northwest School, a movement during the 1930s-1940s from Washington, and below, Franz Kline; Mahoning, 1956 an example of Abstract Expressionism, to show the contrast between the two eras/movements.